Announcements and news stories from the V&A.
We’re pleased to announce the details of three new speakers who are joining the line-up for this year’s Parallel Worlds conference on Saturday 30 September. Parallel Worlds is...
This is one of a series of blog posts by students of the V&A/RCA History of Design MA programme, written to accompany the ‘Building the Royal Albert Hall’...
The title 399 Days imparts the duration of the sculpture’s construction. Through this practical detail, the viewer is made aware of Rachel Kneebone’s corporeal labour....
Assistant Curator, Alex Clayton, explores some of the strangest and most extraordinary animal entertainments on offer to Londoners in 18th and 19th centuries, using material from...
Early days & Interesting Finds A blog dedicated to the discoveries and interesting finds during the decant of Blythe House . . . As most know, the V&A will be vacating...
Seeing Other Things in an Object. The V&A recently had an exhibition in the Photography Gallery – The Camera Exposed, where every photograph had an image of least one...
In the third post of the series marking the forthcoming 250th anniversary of the founding of modern circus, curator Cathy Haill, focuses on the aquatic entertainments at the...
One of my eagle-eyed colleagues recently spotted that an object from the V&A’s collection appeared to have found its way into an episode of Game of Thrones. The object...
The Museum as it Was, 1929 – 1950. Take a look at this interior from 1936, and where do you think it is?.. …no, it`s not the main entrance, this is Gallery 40,...
As part of the Assistant Curator Development Programme, Harriet Reed visited the Georgian Theatre Royal in Richmond to find out more about its history, restoration and archive...
A reminder to our users that the National Art Library will close for our annual stocktake at 17.30 on Saturday 12th August and will re-open at 10.00 on Tuesday 29th...
I began printing books with the hope of producing some which would have a definite claim to beauty. It could be said that William Morris’s career started and ended with the...
V&A colleagues and friends share their memories of Martin Roth, the V&A’s Director from 2011 – 2016, who has sadly passed away. Tim Reeve, V&A Deputy Director...
I explained in an earlier post how the National Art Library catalogue, like most library catalogues, contains records of varying quality and detail. For some purposes, a brief...
Well… I never knew that….. This digitisation project is providing a unique opportunity for various areas of research about the museums collections, the history of...
How would you categorise a museum’s collections, so that users can find what they want? ‘Average’, ‘Fair’, ‘Good’ and ‘OK’? It’s safe to say this...
August 2017 marks the 50th anniversary of the untimely death of playwright, Joe Orton. Curator of Printed Books, Dr Beverley Hart, looks back at Orton’s controversial...
This is one of a series of blog posts by students from the V&A/RCA History of Design MA programme to accompany the ‘Building the Royal Albert Hall’ display at the...
The other weekend I visited the Alma-Tadema: At Home in Antiquity exhibition (7 July – 29 October 2017) at Leighton House Museum. Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836–1912) was a...
In Collaboration with London College of Communication Saturday 30 September 2017, 10:30 – 17:15 Book Online – £25 full price, £20 concessions, £15 student What does...
Archive Assistant, Alice Ridgway, gives an introduction to the Felix Dennis OZ Archive and the challenges in cataloguing the collection. Earlier this year the V&A Department...
This project is the digitisation of The Guard Book Archive of Black & White Photographs taken by the Museum between 1856 – 1997. First of all what is a Guard Book?,...
The art market is a financial market. In 2015 it was worth about £41 billion, with around half of that going through public auctions. Prices go up and prices go down but it is...
